The featured Wiki of the Day for Sunday, 30 November 2025, is Mechanical Turk.
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The featured Wiki of the Day for Sunday, 30 November 2025, is Mechanical Turk.
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The Neo Robot is a $20,000 Roomba But Worse
I want someone to make a quick #indie #game where you are the remote operator and are trying to hide some inevitable accidents from the family. Like whenever you do what you're told, something terrible happens. The hardware malfunctions, you're clumsy […]
I'm hearing more noises about freelancers picking up short contracts to urgently fix "A.I."-generated code at ~2x market rates. Apparently, under NDAs to never reveal who these clients are. Impossible to verify, and we may never know.
#mechanicalturk
How this Microsoft-backed billion-dollar London startup made 700 engineers sitting in India pose as AI TIMESOFINDIA.COM
London-based Builder.ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by Microsoft and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, has filed for bankruptcy after reports that its "AI-powered" app development platform was actually operated by Indian engineers, said to be around 700 of them, pretending to be artificial intelligence.
The company now owes $85 million to Amazon and $30 million to Microsoft in cloud computing fees, while approximately 1,000 employees have lost their jobs. The failure highlights growing concerns about "AI washing," companies rebranding conventional technology services as artificial intelligence to attract investment in the current AI boom.
Der " #MechanicalTurk" - war im 18. Jhd ein gefakter Schach-Computer, in dem ein Mensch saß.
2025 fliegt ein Mrd $ schweres "KI-Startup" auf, das "KI-basierte Programmierung" vertickerte, aber gar keine #KI einsetzte, sondern 700 Inder:innen. #AIwashing
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...
La licorne d'IA Builder.ai, autrefois valorisée à 1,5 milliard de dollars, a fait passer le travail de développeurs basés en Inde pour l'automatisation d'une IA pendant huit ans. — Mechanical Turk for the win, ou pas...
#IA #AI #TurcMécanique #MechanicalTurk
New comic! The Mechanical Turk, curious chess machine, takes on the Emperor of France! #history #comic #chess #mechanicalturk
New comic! See the Mechanical Turk — a chess-playing automaton (or so its inventor claims, anyway). #comic #history #chess #mechanicalturk
Before AI could code or compose, it could… bluff. The Mechanical Turk fooled the world into thinking it could think. Are we still chasing illusions in 2025? 🤖
#AIHistory #ThrowbackTech #MechanicalTurk #AIInnovationsUnleashed
www.aiinnovationsunleashed.com/?p=1920
What happens if Mechanical Turk crowd workers start using LLMs to do their work? cacm.acm.org/research/pre... #mechanicalturk #crowd #llms #crowdwork
Quand on apprendra que DeepSeek c'est en fait une armée de Chinois payés au rabais qui répondent...
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2 mini-blogs from yesterday:
1) On the 18th century Clockwork State ideal based on a tech demo con acuity.design/turning-back... #AI #MechanicalTurk
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Just saw @markhamillofficial.bsky.social in his guest appearance on What We Do in the Shadows (S2.E6). Hilarious! 🤣 #JimTheVampire #MechanicalTurk #AmEntertained
Timnit Gebru (she/her) @timnitgebru@dair-community.social writes Richard talks about deliberate efforts to recruit people from informal settlements because if you ask them to jump, they will say how hi. They will not question what is being done to them because they are so vulnerable.
The former AI ethicist at google, flagging up that behind AI are people, often without secure homes or status, being targetted to do the hard and traumatising work of moderating AI content.
See link for details.
dair-community.social/@timnitGebru...
#MechanicalTurk
Day 4021 - Fascism & AI Eat Culture Alternating pattern of fine multicolored detail being eaten by large Red s and black patterns
Day 4021 - Fascism & AI Eat Culture stillwellgray.ca/blog/day-402... #everydayart #everyday #art #snapseed #mirrorlab #glitchlab #atomized #individual #victimized #funged #replaceableparts #mechanicalturk 📸📷